Articles about lowering fan energy use, avoid self-sabotaging your engineering career, LED lighting specifications, MEP Giants, and LEDs for retrofit projects were Consulting-Specifying Engineer's five most clicked articles from last week, September 5-11. Were you out last week? You can catch up here.

This course starts September 12, and will review fan basics, introduce the proposed Department of Energy (DOE) regulation, and suggest how to use the DOE metric to drive air moving system efficiency up. Emerging utility rebate programs that will be coming, along with fan performance monitoring tools, also will be introduced.

Success has different meanings for different people. To an engineer, success should mean professional recognition of his or her technical expertise, to rise to the highest possible position in the company, to have a hassle-free and litigation-free career, to have a stable domestic life, and, of course, to be financially comfortable.

The MEP Giants program lists the top 100 mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP), and fire protection engineering firms in the United States. The in-depth analysis of these firms appears in the August issue and reveals what’s going on in the industry and how it has changes over the past few years. Special emphasis is placed on commissioning firms in a separate report each October.